Thanks to everyone also giving me book recommendations. I appreciate those too, I just read at a much slower pace than I watch movies so I still have a hefty backlog of that to get through. Might have to recommend some of these to my book club tho
Of course, tho to be fair I haven't watched a lot of the series past TNG so maybe I'll just binge some DS9
War of The Worlds, This Island Earth, The Black Hole, Outland, Journey To The Far Side of The Sun, The Steven Soderbergh version of 2001, Dune (1984 Alternative Edition), Dark Star, Riddick / Chronicles of Riddick / Pitch Black.
It's worth digging around for the Dune Alternative version - it's a fan re-edit with footage taken from all the available versions - cinema, directors, and extneded director's - and put together to make it more in line with the book and the original script.
they kept the really weird scene that made no sense tho, right?
Andor is really good, but I don't know if it's good sci-fi
I just finished reading the dispossessed with my little commie book club and it was incredible. I found it incredibly funny though that the big reveal at the end, the magnificent invention we've been hearing about all book, is just essentially the internet. And I get why lefties in the 70s would be excited about that idea but seeing where we've ended up it made me chuckle. Still an aboslutely beautiful novel though. It's something my partner and I constantly reference in conversation to help elaborate on a point
Not sure who's picking the next book but I've already got Neuromancer by Gibson in the queue. It's just one of those books I've always heard about but never took the time to read so it felt like appropriate book club material
Blindsight and Echopraxia by Peter Watts do have some cyberpunk dystopia stuff going on but are more about the human mind and more especially consciousness, specifically how it's overrated
It has gene-engineered atavistic vampires and surgically-induced disocciative identities, it's neat
Audio books, split the difference. The Quantum theif.
Movie wise I don't think I have seen anything really surprising lately. Do they even still make stuff anymore? I just caught Kin-dza-dza. That soviet movie Lucas stole most of star wars from. That one really cooked my noodle. It is available in YouTube as well
I haven't seen it since it came out, but I remember really liking Aniara (2018). It's a Danish/Swedish film based on a poem from the 50s, about the passengers and crew of a space cruise ship that gets knocked off course on its way to Mars. I thought of it again after seeing Triangle Of Sadness as it has a lot of social breakdown, class dynamics, changing power dynamics in crisis etc. It's also darkly comic.
